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[Juramike]

T43 Mission description is now up!

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/prod...description.pdf

Some highlights:

• Radiometry of western Fensal-Aztlan (will fill in a big chunk of the radiometry map)
• SAR RADAR of Tui Regio in Xanadu and Tortola Facula as well as a very interesting piece of terrian in NE Shangri-La. (Lotsa bright-dark boundaries, maybe some cool islands, dunes, "shallower" areas ) Also some imaging over Dilmun.
• Cloud imaging by VIMS and ISS observations

-Mike

[Juramike]

Ahhh, but just slightly to the S of the image above (and just barely missed by the PIA10353 topgraphy overlap) is an area that has very long parallel streams.

These streams were previosly mentioned in the Titan's Lakes Revealed thread, post 252 (link here) and also in the T28 Flyby thread, post 75 (link here, note Olvegg's indications of directional flow, this must have a really interesting dynamic!)



These streams do not branch very extensively and seem set in their little valley. (Compare with the dendritic set just to the NW). The two running alongside each other look like a great candidate for river capture, so something must be keeping them from apart.

I would assume that the streams are sitting in NW to SE trending creases (under tectonic control?). The topographical image PIA10353 just shows that the downstream part is at the most only tens of meters different in elevation. According to the topo image, any ridge in the downstream section between the two streams could only be 10's of meters high at the most, so to topography here is subtle.

-Mike